Fmr. IAEA Inspector on Attacks on UN Investigators

8/26/2013 12:47PM

United Nations inspectors were fired on by unidentified snipers while examining the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria. Harvard Kennedy School Senior Fellow Olli Heinonen joins Lunch Break to discuss the likelihood of Syrian authorities cooperating with the inspectors. Photo: AP.

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